The outcomes of the refined numerical simulations show that the near-source strong motions tend to impose higher inelastic demand on fragile components of the bridge system than far-field records, nevertheless fragility curves relative to the latter records exhibit higher probability of failure than the near-source strong motion counterparts.
The business faces a constant customer service challenge: showing lay people how to take apart electronic gadgets and install fragile components.
Power semiconductor devices are the most fragile components limiting reliability of power converters, where major stresses are temperature dependent parameters.
Micro-scale probing systems are used on specialist micro-coordinate measuring machines to measure small, intricate and fragile components.
These pre-machined features can be stacked layer-by-layer to create pockets for the accommodation of fragile components, such as electronic circuitry, prior to encapsulation.
This was because all of the thin fragile components were located near the NA position, and this result clearly showed that our design rule can also be applied to flexible optical nanodevices with multiple thin, fragile layers.
The evaluation of the seismic performance for ductile and fragile components has been carried out with simplified yet reliable formulations, either based on codes or experimentally derived, partially validated with numerical simulations.
The chapter emphasizes that in order to control the rotation capacity, it is necessary to first put out fragile components by overstrength and adequate detailing, and then select by a design no more than two basic components as the main sources of plastic deformation.
Evidence supporting the involvement of other fragile components, such as the concentration of E2F and pRB (constraints in the G1/S and Novak and Tyson models), is also prevalent in the literature [76], [77].
For example, people with physical or mental disabilities or individuals who are culturally different from the mainstream population within a disaster zone may be extremely fragile components of the population.
